The latest on Dakota Kai's release from WWE: ︀︀ ︀︀"I don't know what the story is there other than - and I don't know if this is 'official' - but I was kind of told unofficially that Damage CTRL's done. The group is done. ︀︀ ︀︀"And that probably means that maybe Asuka and Kairi might come back as a tag team, and IYO's obviously a big singles star, and maybe they just figured that Dakota, she's not gonna be at the level of an IYO, doesn't have a partner, we don't do a six-woman division, so she got cut. But that one is surprising." ︀︀ ︀︀(Bryan Alvarez on WOL)

Ughh.

The one benefit to that group being done and they don't take it. Kairi's involvement is ruining Asuka's career even more. Typical, but whatever, it doesn't even matter at this point.

 

I'm starting to get the feeling that Asuka may be returning soon and will feud with Iyo.

 

She’s supposed to come back this month sometime after backlash.

 

You know Triple H isn't gonna do anything with her but

A - Put her in a tag team

B - Use her to put over Iyo to prove how much "better" Iyo is than her

That's it.

 

Surprised nobody has posted here yet about Asuka's returning. She's finally back in 6 days.

And for the speculation above that she may be facing Iyo? I'd very much enjoy that feud if built well. They could call back to the triple tails. Put Kairi in the middle of the two of them, torn between two friends. Callbacks to the Sky Pirates in NXT and Kabuki Warriors, and even Damage Control. There's a lot there to work with. Let them do promos in Japanese too. That was hillaroius.

 

She's not facing Iyo. And I don't know why anyone would want that, that would be the worst thing for her. It is not going to go well for her. Triple H will serve her to Iyo on a platter.

 

Plenty of us would enjoy that. Yes, even if Iyo wins the feud, IF it is done well and is entertaining, with plenty focus on both of them. We'd take that over a boring title reign for Asuka with zero focus on herself and her being the force to overcome or fall to, in somebody else's story, that she has been booked as so often before.

We want to enjoy the show and appreciate Asuka for her entertainment and work in and out of the ring. It's nice when she wins, but winning fake combat contests isn't everything. Some of her best and most entertaining moments have had nothing to do with titles.

 

It's so weird that they just kind of slipped her into the tournament. They could have done a mystery entrant or something, like they did for the men's tournament.

 

They didn't want her as a mystery entrant because they wanted people to have time to process that she was going to be in the match. If she was a mystery entrant and people were caught off guard, she would become the crowd favourite for that match and people wouldn't want Stephanie to win, and they can't have that.

 

Yeah, I thought it might be something like that. When I saw she was in the match with Stephanie I knew that's why they weren't going to make a big deal about her return. Asuka should get a good pop when she comes out next week though.

 

 

最近アスカはどうですか

 

Before you watch this, make sure the audio track is set to Japanese to hear Asuka's actual voice. For some reason, the default audio track, which is set to English, is some shitty AI dub of her voice that makes no sense. If you set it to Japanese, you'll hear Asuka speak in (good) English (For all you morons who think Asuka can't speak English - it's almost like WWE wants her to be an exaggerated caricature) and Japanese both.

So happy to see her happy, revitalized and refocused after that terrible start of the year she had. Only good things for Kana.

 

You tell ‘em, Empress 🗣

 

You tell ‘em, Empress 🗣

All of this being hated, imagine what she could have garnered if she was well-booked.

 

For being almost 44 years old, she looks phenomenal. Her skin care routine must be shared.

 

Maybe this is why:

 

I might be in the minority here but I always loved this theme so I'm a little disappointed she went back to old one.

 

Well, she ain't winning shit tomorrow. Asuka attacked Jade on the go home show and Naomi attempted to cash in and Jade didn't stop her, so Naomi isn't screwing Jade tomorrow.

She came all the way out here risking her life to lose, without even getting a financial bonus for it. This is exactly what I knew would happen.

 

Well, it will look pretty bad if they do an Asuka/Iyo title match now. What was the point of Asuka being in the tournament if she still gets a title match anyway?

 

To make Jade look 1% competent. As I said.

They don't value Asuka, she's only there to carry women.

And, they can give her a title match without adding anything to her legacy, which Triple H desperately wants to avoid doing.

 

It's mind boggling how hard HHH has pushed Rhea.

I don't think Prime Hogan was pushed this hard (Sarcasm)

 

It's mind boggling how hard HHH has pushed Rhea.

I don't think Prime Hogan was pushed this hard

Well, you'd be wrong. Prime Hogan held the title longer than Romans last run.

 

ええとくらとうさんあうかはよくないてう

 

Just cut her and let her go to AEW for more money.

 

Dunno the context for this, but I suppose people here will be interested in what she says around 6:00:

hotõni omoshiroi no douga desuyo

 

Asuka really said "Fuck them spot monkeys" 😭 🙏

 

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Asuka really said "Fuck them spot monkeys" 😭 🙏

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She’s just missing Kratos on her couch.

 

Aaaah, the good old dojo days under Hotta's supervision...

 

Looks like we may finally be getting an Asuka vs Iyo feud, with Kairi in the middle. Been wanting that for a long while.

 

She's about to lose to Rhea, lose to Iyo, Iyo is about to beat Stephanie Vaquer and become the champion again to further illustrate how much better (to Triple H) and how much more successful she is than Asuka, erasing her legacy, and then Kairi will turn on her for her troubles.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say she was going to AEW with this type of treatment. Why does Levesque have such a problem with her? What great offense did she commit on him? Doesn't it mean anything that she carried your fucking piss ant Ring of Honor knock off for years? Does he have no loyalty whatsoever? What the fuck is the matter with you?

 

Asuka made it pretty clear today that she and Kairi want go after Charlexa and the tag titles.

 

Main event of Crown Jewel:

Women’s World Championship Triple Threat: Iyo Sky (c) vs. Asuka vs. Rhea Ripley

LFG!